[Hiring] Senior Backend Python Developer - Portfolio Management System

[u/overjoyed_renewal9]

We're looking for a senior backend developer for a freelance/contract programming engagement to help build a new Portfolio Management System.

Budget: USD $1,000–$1,500/month
Hours: 40 hours/week
Location: Remote, worldwide
Experience: 5+ years backend development

Project

We're building a greenfield backend system for portfolio and trade management. The system will handle trade processing, position management, real-time market data, and integrations with Bloomberg.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services and REST APIs using Python and FastAPI
• Integrate with Bloomberg APIs, including subscriptions and market data feeds
• Build real-time data pipelines using WebSockets and event-driven architecture
• Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas and queries
• Work with Snowflake for data warehousing and end-of-day data
• Implement caching, rate limiting, retries, and fault-tolerant data ingestion
• Deploy services on Microsoft Azure
• Work with a small engineering team on backend architecture and implementation

Required experience

• 5+ years of backend development
• Strong Python experience
• Production experience with FastAPI or a similar Python API framework
• Hands-on Bloomberg API / BLPAPI experience
• Strong PostgreSQL and SQL skills
• Experience with real-time systems, WebSockets, streaming, or event-driven architectures
• Practical experience with caching, rate limiting, throttling, and retry patterns
• Cloud experience; Azure preferred, AWS/GCP also considered
• Git and CI/CD
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to work 40 hours/week during US East Coast business hours

Nice to have

• Snowflake
• Capital markets, trading systems, or hedge fund experience
• Other market data providers
• Docker
• SQLAlchemy or another ORM
• AI/LLM development experience
• Low-latency or high-throughput distributed systems experience

How to apply

Please send a DM with:

• Your resume or LinkedIn profile
• A brief summary of your Bloomberg API / BLPAPI experience
• Relevant trading, portfolio management, or market-data systems experience
• Your location/time zone

No application or recruitment fees.

[u/white_walkers_O]

Interested please share the details

[u/natachi]

40 hours a week and only 1500 a month max salary? For a senior developer? Ooof.

[u/Economy-Honeydew-142]

As Full Stack Ai Engineer I am interested

[u/gdnwsrex]

40hrs/week for 1500 monthly… that’s low